NWA 4734 Lunar Meteorites for Sale
Location: Purchased at Rissani, Morocco
Found: October 2006.
Type: Achondrite (lunar); extensive shock.
Description: A. Habibi purchased two pieces, with a total mass of 477 g, in Rissani, Morocco, and several other pieces of the same stone totaling 895 g are with M. Oumama in Rissani, Morocco. Dull black/brown fusion crust nearly complete and inside slightly tarnished where absent. It is a gray, coarse grained, pristine magmatic rock consisting of millimeter-sized phenocrysts, mainly of pyroxene and plagioclase. From Meteoritical Bulletin 93. The above weights do not represent all of this stone that has been found.
Link to Meteoritical Bulletin Database.
Other references:http://www.meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/stones/nwa4734.htm
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| # NWA4734-142 | #NWA4734-1421 | #NWA4734-156 | #NWA4734-170 | About Scale: Each photo has a small one centimeter cube. That's a little less than a half inch on a side. The coin above is a US dime. |
| Weight: 0.142 gm | Weight: .142 gm | Weight: 0.156 gm | Weight: .170 gm | |
| Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | |
| Price: $185 | $185 | sold | sold |
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| #NWA4734-186 | #NWA4734-2081 | #NWA4734-240 | #NWA4734-1-420 |
| Weight: .186 gm | Weight: 0.208 gm | Weight: 0.240 gm | Weight: 1.420 gm |
| Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Slice of fragment with crust |
| $242 | $270 | $312 | $1850 |
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